Across an evolving digital world, disruptive and emerging technology trends in business, industry, science, and entertainment increasingly impact the world's economies. By 2020, the success of half of the world's Global 2000 companies will depend on their abilities to create digitally enhanced products, services, and experiences,1 and large organizations expect to see an 80 percent increase in their digital revenues,2 all driven by advancements in technology and usage models they enable.

This global transformation is rapidly scaling the demands for flexible compute, networking, and storage. Future workloads will necessitate infrastructures that can seamlessly scale to support immediate responsiveness and widely diverse performance requirements. The exponential growth of data generation and consumption, the rapid expansion of cloud-scale computing, emerging 5G networks, and the extension of high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) into new usages require that today's data centers and networks urgently evolve—or be left behind in a highly competitive environment. These demands are driving the architecture of modernized, future-ready data centers and networks that can quickly flex and scale.

The Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor familyprovides the foundation for a powerful data center platform that creates an evolutionary leap in agility and scalability. Disruptive by design, this innovative processor sets a new level of platform convergence and capabilities across compute, storage, memory, network, and security. Enterprises and cloud and communications service providers can now drive forward their most ambitious digital initiatives with a feature-rich, highly versatile platform.

Enabling Greater Efficiencies and Lower TCO
Across infrastructures, from enterprise to technical computing applications, the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor familyis designed for data center modernization to drive operational efficiencies that lead to improved total cost of ownership (TCO) and higher productivity for users. Systems built on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor familyare designed to deliver agile services with enhanced performance and groundbreaking capabilities, compared to the prior generation.

Intel® Security Libraries◊ for Data Center (Intel® SecL-DC): A set of software libraries and components, Intel® SecL-DC enables Intel hardware-based security features. The open-source libraries are modular and have a consistent interface. They can be used by customers and software developers to more easily develop solutions that help secure platforms and help protect data using Intel hardware-enhanced security features at cloud scale

As more data-rich workloads flow through the data center, this comprehensive suite of hardware-enhanced features brings better data- and platform-level protection mechanisms for trusted services in enterprise and cloud environments.◊

Dynamic and Highly Efficient Service Delivery
The convergence of enhanced compute, memory, network, and storage performance, combined with software ecosystem optimizations, make Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor familythe ideal platform for fully virtualized, software-defined data centers that dynamically self-provision resources—on-premises, through the network, and in the public cloud—based on workload needs.

Powerful Tools and Technologies for an Agile Data Center

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT-x) features:

Mode-based execution control (MBE) virtualization: Provides an extra layer of protection from malware attacks in a virtualized environment by enabling hypervisors to more reliably verify and enforce the integrity of kernel level code

Enterprise and Government – Primed for Business
For enterprise data centers modernizing to take advantage of the era of advanced analytics, the hybrid cloud and future-ready storage, Intel® Select Solutions can speed up your data-fueled, IT-driven business transformation.

Communications Service Providers – Tuned Network Enhancements
For Communication Service Providers transforming their network for a 5G-enabled future, Intel® Select Solutions offer a faster and more efficient deployment path of tested, reliable infrastructure with verified configurations that take full advantage of virtual network enhancements that support new and emerging customer workload demands.

High Performance Computing – Accelerated Time to Insight
For research in academia and government as well as the enterprises, high performance computing (HPC) capabilities with Intel® Select Solutions help push the limits of mainstream data today with deeper insights and more complex problem solving.

Strong, Capable Platforms for the Data-Fueled Enterprise

Enterprises are keen to extract value from the exploding data streams being presented to them for rapid insights that can shape their business initiatives. Traditional and emerging applications in the enterprise, including predictive analytics, machine learning, and HPC, require new levels of powerful compute capabilities and massive tiered data storage volumes. The modernized data center is being architected using a converged and holistic approach that can flexibly deliver new services and improve TCO across infrastructure assets today, while providing the most seamless and scalable on-ramp to a self-governing, hybrid data center.

Yet, organizations running their foundational business workloads, such as OLTP and web infrastructure, seek to reduce TCO with higher performing infrastructures.

With a scalable portfolio of packaging options to suit diverse workload requirements, the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family is a performance workhorse designed for deploying highly efficient, virtualized infrastructures for compute, storage, and networking.

The coming era of 5G will enable entirely new ecosystems and classes of consumer and enterprise services along with media applications on wireless and wireline networks. These data-rich, innovative use cases, driven by the new Internet of Things (IoT), visual computing, and analytics, represent significant future opportunities for communications service providers (CommSPs) to grow revenue.

The transition from purpose-built, fixed function infrastructure to a new generation of open networks is the essential first step to prepare for a 5G-enabled world. Software-defined networking with Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is enabling new service opportunities and operations efficiencies for both communication services providers and enterprises alike. Using flexible, optimized, industry-standard servers and virtualized, orchestrated network functions will allow future-ready infrastructures to be able to deliver innovative services with efficiency and ease.

Such distributed communications networks can support extreme levels of scalability, agility, programmability, and security across an ever-growing volume and variety of networking workloads—from the network core to the edge.

The Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor familyis the basis for next-generation platforms to build virtualized, cloud-optimized, 5G-ready networks. It offers an architecture that scales and adapts with ease to handle the demands of emerging applications and the convergence of key workloads, such as applications and services, control plane processing, high-performance packet processing, and signal processing. This new processor provides a foundation for agile networks that can operate with cloud economics, be highly automated and responsive, and support rapid and more secure delivery of new and enhanced services enabled by 5G.

Hardware-based acceleration of encryption and compression using integrated Intel® QAT

Intel® Ethernet 800 Series

Intel® FPGAs maximize versatility in communications infrastructure

Intel® Infrastructure Management Technologies (Intel® IMT)

Additional Resources Optimized for Communication Service Providers
The open-source Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) enables optimized communications operations on Intel® architecture. DPDK has demonstrated ability to scale performance as processor core count and performance increase; workloads, such as Vector Packet Processing (VPP) IPsec, benefit from this enhanced performance. Additionally, these libraries provide pre-optimized mechanisms to allow new processor capabilities (such as Intel® AVX-512 and memory and I/O enhancements) to be able to utilize the new functionality for improved packet processing performance with less direct development effort.

Intel offers programs, such as Intel® Network Builders University, ideal for network evolution in the 5G era. With solution guidance and training from these programs, CommSPs can drive their network transformation initiatives forward with increased confidence.

Breakthrough HPCand High-performance Data Analytics Innovation

Today's scientific discoveries are fueled by innovative algorithms, new sources and volumes of data, and advances in compute and storage. Benefitting from exponentially expanding volumes and variety of data, HPCclusters are also the engine for running evolving High-performance Data Analytics (HPDA) workloads, leading to incredible discoveries and insight for business and human understanding. Machine learning, deep learning, and AI converge the capabilities of massive compute with the flood of data to drive next-generation applications, such as autonomous systems and self-driving vehicles.

Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family offers a common platform for AI with high throughput for both inference and training—up to 30x higher inference4 using 9200 series and up to 14x higher inference7 throughput using 8200 series, compared to Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors introduced in July 2017.

HPC is no longer just the domain of large scientific institutions. Enterprises are increasingly consuming a massive number of HPCcompute cycles; some of the world's largest HPCclusters are in private oil and gas companies. Research in personalized medicine applies HPCfor highly focused treatment plans. New HPCinstallations are engaging innovative, converged architectures for non-traditional usages that combine simulation, AI, visualization, and analytics in a single supercomputer.

HPC platforms—from the smallest clusters to largest supercomputers—demand a balance across compute, memory, storage, and network. The Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family was designed to deliver and enable such balance with massive scalability—to tens of thousands of cores. From its improved core count and mesh architecture to newly integrated technologies and support for Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and storage devices, the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family enables the ultimate goals of HPC—to maximize performance across compute, memory, storage, and network without inducing bottlenecks at any intersection of resources.

The integration of Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA), an end-to-end high-performance fabric, into the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family delivers both increased performance and scaling to distributed, parallel computing clusters. Near linear scaling up to 32 nodes enables building large HPCsolutions that are not inhibited by the interconnect. The Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor familyand Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) can enable new discoveries and faster solutions for highly parallel workloads in many data centers.

New 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for HPC15

Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 processors

Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory

Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI)

Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost)

Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512)

Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) Host Fabric Interface

Intel® Optane™ DC SSDs

Additional Technologies for HPC, HPDA, and AI
A range of high-productivity software tools, optimized libraries, foundational building blocks, and flexible frameworks for general and highly parallel computing help simplify workflows and assist developers to create codes that maximize the capabilities of IA for HPCand AI.

Optimizations for popular deep learning frameworks for IA, including Caffe and TensorFlow* offer increased value and performance for data scientists.

Resources Optimized for HPC
To continue to advance discovery through HPCinto the Exascale era, the Intel® Modern Code Developer Communityoffers developers and data scientists easily accessible online and face-to-face code modernization technical sessions on techniques, such as vectorization, memory and data layout, multithreading, and multinode programming.

Overview of 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family

Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 Processors

Designed for high performance computing, advanced artificial intelligence and analytics, the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 processors deliver breakthrough levels of performance with the highest Intel® architecture FLOPS per rack, along with the highest DDR native memory bandwidth support of any Intel® Xeon® processor platform.

The Intel® Xeon® Bronze processors delivers entry performance for small business and basic storage servers. Hardware-enhanced reliability, availability, and serviceability features designed to meet the needs of these entry solutions.

2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

SKU Numbering
Processor numbers for the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family use an alphanumeric scheme based on performance, features, processor generation, and any options, following the brand and its class.

2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor SKUs

For the most up-to-date information, please visit intel.com/xeon or ark.intel.com

2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

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Notice Revision #20110804
Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configuration and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations, and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more complete information visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.

Pricing guidance as of March 1, 2019. Intel does not guarantee any costs or cost reduction. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in your purchase decision.